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This is Wonderful News: ICE Has Only Seemed To Be Quieter

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The agency’s subtler tactics in recent months aimed to lull citizens into complacency. Arrests, detentions, and deportations have all increased under new DHS Director Markwayne Mullin.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/19/ice-has-only-seemed-to-be-qui
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As a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin enjoyed a reputation for confrontation and theatricality. He often donned a cowboy hat on the Senate floor (a no-no for a body that prizes decorum) and strode the hallways of the Capitol bouncing a rubber stress ball.

During a 2023 Senate hearing, the former mixed martial arts fighter challenged Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to a fistfight, taunting him to “stand your butt up.” In a separate incident last fall, Mullin “joked” about killing journalists.

Mullin’s confirmation hearing to replace Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security this spring was likewise combative. Sen. Rand Paul—whom Mullin had called a “freaking snake”—challenged his temperament and lack of expertise. “Explain to the American people why they should trust a man with anger issues to set the proper example for ICE and border patrol agents,” Paul said.

Since ascending to DHS, however, Mullin has submerged his ostentatious persona. Unlike Noem, whose shock-and-awe immigration enforcement tactics sparked widespread public outrage, Mullin has been relatively low-key. No dehumanizing videos, no embarrassing cosplay, no obvious corruption.

He’s also built a brutally efficient deportation machine that—until last week—was largely escaping protest from an easily distractible public:

- Arrests have surged to 2,000 per day, according to the New York Times, and more than 63,000 people were in ICE custody at the start of July, often in horrific conditions.

- ICE has especially targeted unaccompanied minors, reports ProPublica, and judges are signing more than 10,000 deportation or removal orders each month.

- Immigration judges have also sharply reduced the number of immigrants granted asylum, while judges resistant to the administration’s policies have been fired.

- Judges are now also holding mass deportation hearings involving as many as 100 cases at a time, according to NPR, often with little or no notice to the people involved.

- Deportation flights reached a record high in May, according to the nonprofit Human Rights First, with 288 flights to 38 countries, including St. Kitts, Nevis, Paraguay, Ghana, and Cameroon.

- DHS has also told employers to fire thousands of legal immigrant workers who are likely to lose their Temporary Protected Status in coming weeks, thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision granting the administration broad discretion over TPS status.

The fatal shooting of a Houston man by ICE agents earlier this month, along with another killing last week in Maine and the death of yet another man in Florida, have revived some public scrutiny of ICE’s tactics. But the national outcry has so far been relatively muted compared to the protests in Minneapolis, Portland, and other cities earlier this year. These recent shootings have not involved U.S. citizens, unlike the killings in Minneapolis, and ICE has taken pains to avoid the massive shows of force that frightened or inconvenienced ordinary Americans. “It’s by design,” as one anonymous source told Politico.

Even as outrage is building anew over ICE’s abuses, thousands of people have already been quietly disappeared from their neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces. Perhaps you no longer see the family that lived next door, the server at your favorite restaurant, the custodian at your children’s school, or the aide who helped your elderly parents. And perhaps the reasons for their absence are perfectly benign. Many Americans will tell themselves that.

But it’s exactly that silent complicity that Mullin and his agents have been counting on to carry out their mass deportations. The current furor may yet die down. Don’t look away.

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Sunday, July 19, 2026 6:47 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

2,000 per day is not NEARLY enough. But it's a hell of a lot better than the dozens or couple hundred that we were removing when brainfucked lefty college "educated" white kids were burning down Teslas and buildings and blocking all the roads so people couldn't get to work. All while wearing turbans and waving gay pride flags.

You lazy, stupid motherfuckers either ran out of steam, or you stopped getting paid through NGOs and USAid and you're too fucking lazy or don't actually care enough to do any of this if your worthless ass isn't getting paid to get off your fat, ugly asses and go scream at people and make their lives miserable for a living.

Fuck you, idiots.

America hates each and every one of you retards.

They're all going home. Every single one of them and their kids.

Eat shit.

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